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August 30th, 1970...

Today is Sunday !

 
 
 Number-one song in the charts today


In the USA:

"War"
by Edwin Starr

In the UK:
"The Wonder Of You"
by Elvis Presley
 TIME Magazine cover this week

TIME Magazine: Howard Stein

(TIME Cover: August the 24th, 1970)

 Famous people born on the 30th of August:

1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
1748 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
1871 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
1937 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer, designer, and manufacturer (d. 1970)
1962 - Alexander Litvinenko, British citizen, ex-KGB colonel and ex-FSB lieutenant-colonel (d.2006)
1972 - Cameron Diaz, American actress

 The Nobel Prize in Literature 1970


Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature

USSR



Photo: nobelprize.org


 Average price of a dozen eggs in 1970 (USA)



$0.62
     
Oscar of the best picture in 1970

Patton
directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
with George C. Scott (General George S. Patton, Jr.)

Designed in 1970

The Egg lounge chair
by Huub Kortekaas

Rolling Stone Magazine cover



Janis Joplin / Rolling Stone Magazine Vol. 64, August 6, 1970

 

 
 
 
     

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